You can imagine the pictures that ensued once everyone had their fingerstache on. Of course I didn’t take pics. Bad blogger I know, but this is what you could imagine it looking like:

Good times were had by all. I’ve been swamped with work so it was nice to head out and relax for a little bit.

Of course the best part of a birthday is the gifts! I must share what I got the birthday girl. First I made sure to wrap my gifts in a green manor and used some left over fabric and ribbon to make them pretty:

Now what was inside the packages:

She loved them and I would highly recommend etsy seller Pradman. The jewels are stunning and the prices are really budget friendly.

When I was a little girl my dad introduced me to classic movies. My favorites had to be the ones with Audrey Hepburn. To this day Audrey is still a constant source of inspiration. There are little peeks of her all throughout my home. Luckily for me Jon doesn’t seem to mind sharing his house with two lovely ladies.

As I was searching for inspiration for a recent e-decorating client I stumbled upon this movie poster and everything just came together:

Don’t you just love when that happens? Where do you find inspiration for design projects?

Love the crisp square trim on all of the cushions. What a custom look! So easy to recreate the look yourself if you have a slipcovered sofa and want to give it new life!

You could go for a classic square box trim or try your hand at a little fretwork pattern. Since you will be sitting on the sofa I would reinforce the ribbon run it through the sewing machine.

You could also purchase solid colored fabric and have your local tailor/dry cleaners sew on a 2″ square border on each cushion. I can get this town in my town for $20 a cushion. Not bad for a totally new look for your slipcover.

Totally tempted now to try it out on my sofa. Hmm wonder what Jon would think about that? Are you a fan?

Matchbook Magazine is finally live! You must go and check it out while I deal with some technical difficulties. Sorry for all of the different background changes on the blog. Working on getting it fixed.

I wasn’t in love with the ornate design on the doors of the dresser so I had to come up with a different solution. Of course my immediate thought was a skirted table, but paying for a seamstress wasn’t in the cards so I came up with an alternative.

Enter some bargain fabric (only $5 a yard) and stitch witchery vinyl and a piece of mdf!

I decided my skirted table needed to have some faux side pleats so that I could easily open and close the drawers. Now measurements vary depending on the size of your piece, but I cut to cut the following pieces:
-2 side pieces (Make sure you add an extra 6″ to the width so you can make a faux pleat)
-2 front pieces
-1 skinny piece for the faux pleat in the middle

Once you have the pieces cut use your stitch witchery to iron on a nice hem on all of the pieces. Once that is done start my taking some measurements to find the middle and staple your skinny piece here:

Once that’s done it’s time to work on the sides. For the side pieces you will have a bit of extra material. The extra material will give you a nice crisp corner and provide a faux pleat for you. Pretend you are wrapping a large gift and use the same technique on your fabric:

Once both sides are done it’s time to do the front panels. Just center each front panel in between the corner pleat and the middle pleat:

Almost done:

Now I didn’t want the top piece to stay exposed and I didn’t want fabric on the top, because I was afraid it would get dirty and since I would be stapling it on I wouldn’t be able to remove it and wash it.

Here is where the wood and vinyl come into play. I measured the top piece of the dresser and went to Lowes where I had them cut a piece of mdf to size. They were really sweet and cut it to my exact measurements which was great. No need to run home and take out the power tools in the drive way. Once we bought it home I wrapped it up in some durable orange vinyl and simply placed it on top. Due to it’s weight there is no need to nail it on top or use liquid nails to it.

Voila!

So happy with the results and what fun to get back to my DIY posts. I took a little break from them. Lots of craziness going on around here so I haven’t had a lot of extra time, but I now have a lengthy list of finished projects that I’m going to showcase! Woo hoo!

It is pouring here today, which makes it seems totally fitting for me to reveal the paint color I picked out for my main bathroom. Yesterday my family was guessing that I went with orange or coral so they were in a complete shock when they show what I really picked!

I’m in love with the paint color! It’s rainwater by Martha Stewart. It looks a bit gray on the computer, but it’s a lovely blue/gray/green combo.

*I personally find Martha Stewart brand paint to be a little watery so I had them color match it and used Behr painted. It worked out perfectly.

I just finished ordering the little finishing touches so hopefully I will be able to do a full reveal this weekend!

During the summer I asked all of my lovely readers how they felt about black walls, because I was starting to feel over them.

You see I had painted my main bathroom black a little over 3 years ago and I was getting the itch for something different.

Everyone calmed me down a bit and told me how much they loved it so I decided to leave it as is and try to make some minor tweaks to the black well of those tweaks finally lead me to do this:

I had been pretty low key all weekend I had a busy week and really just wanted to veg out, but of course yesterday at 6pm I decided enough is enough and I primed the walls for paint! It took 2 coats of loads of stinky fumes that gave me a headache, but it’s done and I’m painting it the new color today.

Stay tuned!

What did you do this weekend? Anyone watch the globes? I did in between painting and I gotta say I didn’t really feel wowed by any of the dresses.

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I've been redecorating rooms for as long as I can remember. I always been the go-to gal for picking out paint colors or fabrics for a bedroom re-model. I've finally decided to get my high-heeled foot in the design door and open my own Interior Decorating firm called Effortless Style.